Alaskans shrug at threat

N. Korea missile latest in long line of perils

Photographs by The New York Times/RUTH FREMSON

Gary Melven, a Vietnam War veteran and Alaska native, stands outside his emergency survival supplies store in Anchorage. He remembers the Cuban missile crisis and radar sites that once watched for Russian missiles. “I’ve lived a good life, so if something happens, it happens,” he said.

KIRK JOHNSON The New York Times

Sunday, July 16, 2017

In Washington, the news that North Korea may have developed an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of hitting Alaska set off a wave of anxiety.